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File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.


||1838 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (d. 1916)
||1838: Cleveland Abbe born ... meteorologist and academic.


||Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (b. December 3, 1842) was an industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. Pic.
||1842: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards born ... industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. Pic.


||1854 – Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
||1854: Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.


|File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' attacked by in mid-ocean by supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
||1879: Donald Matheson Sutherland born ... physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence.


|File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1873: A worldwide outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]] outbreak unexplained loss of ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''.
||1886: Manne Siegbahn born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1879 – Donald Matheson Sutherland, Canadian physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 1970)
||1888: Carl Zeiss dies ... physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument.


||1886 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
||1895: Georg Robert Döpel born ... experimental nuclear physicist. Pic.


||1888 – Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
||1897: William Gropper born ... cartoonist and painter ... Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. The experience provided inspirational fodder for a series of fifty lithographs entitled the ''Caprichos''.


||Georg Robert Döpel (b. 3 December 1895) was a German experimental nuclear physicist. Pic.
||1900: Richard Kuhn born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1897 – William Gropper, American cartoonist and painter (d. 1977) Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. The experience provided inspirational fodder for a series of fifty lithographs entitled the ''Caprichos''.
||1904: The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
 
||1900 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
 
||1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.


File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1909: Electrical engineers John Havelock and Nikolai Tesla invent [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new data transmission protocols]] based on the work of mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]].
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1909: Electrical engineers John Havelock and Nikolai Tesla invent [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new data transmission protocols]] based on the work of mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]].
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File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.  
File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.  


||Konrad Jörgens (3 December 1926) was a German mathematician. He made important contributions to mathematical physics, in particular to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to the theory of partial differential equations and integral operators.
||1926: Konrad Jörgens born ... German mathematician. He made important contributions to mathematical physics, in particular to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to the theory of partial differential equations and integral operators.
 
||1933: Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).


||1933 – Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
||1935: Patrick Carl Fischer (December 3, 1935 – August 26, 2011) was an American computer scientist, a noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31fischer.html


||1938 – Sally Shlaer, American mathematician and engineer (d. 1998)
||1938: Sally Shlaer born ... mathematician and engineer.


||Paris Christos Kanellakis (b. December 3, 1953) was a Greek American computer scientist. His scientific contributions lie in the fields of database theory—comprising work on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and constraint databases—as well as in fault-tolerant distributed computation and in type theory. Pic.
||1953: Paris Christos Kanellakis born ... computer scientist. His scientific contributions lie in the fields of database theory—comprising work on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and constraint databases—as well as in fault-tolerant distributed computation and in type theory. Pic.


||Felix Bernstein (d. 3 December 1956), mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic.
||1956: Felix Bernstein dies ... mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic.


File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
||1973: Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
 
|File:Alien-cast.jpg|link=Alien (film) (nonfiction)|1979: Cast of ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]'' launches Kickstarter campaign to fund movie about ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''.
 
||Boris Choubert or Schuberth (d. December 3, 1983) was a French geologist. An adept of Wegener's theory, he was the first to precisely reconstruct the layout of the continental masses of Africa, America, Europe and Greenland prior to the fragmentation of Pangaea, thirty years before the article generally credited for this discovery. Pic.
 
||1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.


||1984 – Mathematician and theorist Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin dies. Pic.
||1983: Boris Choubert or Schuberth dies ... geologist. An adept of Wegener's theory, he was the first to precisely reconstruct the layout of the continental masses of Africa, America, Europe and Greenland prior to the fragmentation of Pangaea, thirty years before the article generally credited for this discovery. Pic.


||1993 – Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and academic (b. 1913)
||1984: Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.


||1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
||1984: Mathematician and theorist Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin dies. Pic.


||2004 – Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1911) Shiing-Shen Chern (d. December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century
||1993: Lewis Thomas dies ... physician, etymologist, and academic.


||2014 – The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.
||1999: NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.


||2014 – James Stewart, Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1941)
||2004: Shiing-Shen Chern dies ... mathematician and academic ... fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century


||2014: Hayabusa2 launced ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
||2014: James Stewart dies ... mathematician and academic.


|File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2016: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen by supervillain [[Gnotilus]];  painting may hold key to disappearance of ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''.
||2014: The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2


|File:Cantor Parabola defies the National Security Agency.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: [[Cantor Parabola]] joins [[Antikythera Team]] board of directors.
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